Eating and sleeping habits

[Knight~Ryder]

Originally Posted by TheOldSalt

HOWEVER, your goofy lighting pattern will hurt them over time. Hormones regulate everything in the body, and in fish, photoperiod regulates hormone activity.
Put your lights on a timer and let them have normal days & nights. Quit torturing them. A morning feeding would be nice, too.

What do you mean by torturing them?

I feed them once per day around 10 (just a little, ground up really tiny)

I turn the lights on around 5pm and turn them off around 11. Sometimes I am home to turn them on earlier then that. Once in awhile.

I leave for work early and get home around 5. Basiclly I would need to have the lights on when I am at work and when I get home turn them off. Thats horrible. I would like to enjoy my tank as well.

[trashion]

They need a normal day-night cycle. Surely you can work around that. Get a cheap timer for a few bucks, set the tank light to come on sometime around maybe 2 PM, and to go off around 10.